Yahoo Finance Analyst Forecasts For Bally's Corporation (NYSE:BALY) Are Surging Higher
Celebrations may be in order for Bally's Corporation (NYSE:BALY) shareholders, with the analysts delivering a significant upgrade to their statutory estimates for the company. Consensus estimates suggest investors could expect greatly increased statutory revenues and earnings per share, with analysts modelling a real improvement in business performance.
Following the upgrade, the current consensus from Bally's' four analysts is for revenues of US$986m in 2021 which - if met - would reflect a huge 164% increase on its sales over the past 12 months. Losses are expected to turn into profits real soon, with the analysts forecasting US$1.90 in per-share earnings. Before this latest update, the analysts had been forecasting revenues of US$875m and earnings per share (EPS) of US$1.59 in 2021. So we can see there's been a pretty clear increase in analyst sentiment in recent times, with both revenues and earnings per share receiving a decent lift in the latest estimates.
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Taking a look at the bigger picture now, one of the ways we can understand these forecasts is to see how they compare to both past performance and industry growth estimates. For example, we noticed that Bally's' rate of growth is expected to accelerate meaningfully, with revenues forecast to exhibit 164% growth to the end of 2021 on an annualised basis. That is well above its historical decline of 0.3% a year over the past three years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in the industry are forecast to see their revenue grow 22% per year. So it looks like Bally's is expected to grow faster than its competitors, at least for a while.
The Bottom Line
The most important thing to take away from this upgrade is that analysts upgraded their earnings per share estimates for this year, expecting improving business conditions. Fortunately, analysts also upgraded their revenue estimates, and our data indicates sales are expected to perform better than the wider market. With a serious upgrade to expectations, it might be time to take another look at Bally's.
These earnings upgrades look like a sterling endorsement, but before diving in - you should know that we've spotted 4 potential flags with Bally's, including dilutive stock issuance over the past year. For more information, you can click through to our platform to learn more about this and the 3 other flags we've identified .
Of course, seeing company management invest large sums of money in a stock can be just as useful as knowing whether analysts are upgrading their estimates. So you may also wish to search this free list of stocks that insiders are buying.
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